Datadog is committed to open source. It starts with our Agent, tracers, libraries, and SDKs all being open source. But it goes so much further. From open standards to open collaboration, it’s a core part of who we are and what we do. As part of the Open Source Program Office (OSPO), you will be focusing on building tools, documentation, policies, etc. that improve how our engineers interact with Open Source projects (our own and third-party projects), as well as representing Datadog in Open Source communities. 

What You’ll Do: 

• Build and maintain tools that ease building and releasing Open Source software at Datadog
• Build and maintain tools that ease ingesting Open Source software at Datadog
• Create developer facing documentation and training materials around contributing to open source and maintaining open source projects
• Interface with open source communities to understand problems and trends in the market
• Create tools to automatically analyze and report on Open Source repositories trends and statistics
• Interface with Datadog Open Source Partners candidates and recipients to select new projects for the program and ensure that the program stays useful
• Research and write content for the Datadog Open Source Hub
• Contribute to the product through feedback (bugs or product enhancements suggestions), documentation, or code

Who You Are: 

• Approximately 3+ years of experience as a software developer, SRE, or other practitioner.
• You are fluent in reading and writing one or more languages, e.g. Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, C#, Rust, and so on.
• You love building tools that make other engineers more productive.
• You have empathy, collaboration, and communication skills to cultivate strong relationships across various teams in the organization.
• Bonus: You are (or have been) an active member of an open source community.
• Bonus: You are familiar with different Open Source licenses and Contributor License Agreements 

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.  

Benefits and Growth: 

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive global benefits

 Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

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We are looking for a senior software engineer to join our new Community Open Source Engineering team focused on growing the Quickwit OSS community and help steer the quickwit-oss collection of projects. You will play a key role in evolving quickwit & tantivy, ensuring community happiness, optimizing the release process and operations, and more. This is a hybrid role, primarily focused on Software Engineering, with a crucial component dedicated to Technical Writing, including producing blog posts and technical guides. 

Community Open Source Engineering is responsible for fostering engagement and guiding development of Datadog's open source projects outside of the core product and security research areas. The team ensures these projects deliver value to both the open source community and the company by prioritizing community engagement, maintaining software quality and security, and strategically developing new features.  As a member of a small team, you'll play a crucial role in shaping the future of Community Open Source Engineering and have a significant impact on the team's direction.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What you’ll do:

• Assist with managing the Quickwit community, responsibilities include:
• reviewing external contributions and ensuring codebase quality
• triaging reported GitHub issues
• answering questions on GitHub Discussions
• Help define the project governance. Establish contribution guidelines and continuously improve processes to minimize friction for all stakeholders.
• Collect data to assess project health and usage, identifying areas for improvement.
• Actively evangelize Quickwit to expand its reach and impact.
• Advance the Quickwit roadmap. For example, propose and implement architectural changes to facilitate contributions and reduce maintenance burdens, as well as develop highly requested features.

Who you are:

• You love talking with users and interacting with the open source community 
• You have experience managing an OSS project with a community of (internal and external) users and contributors
• You ship fast, overcome blockers with a practical mindset, and cut through ambiguity
• You have at least 3-5 years of experience with systems-level programming and preferably using Rust (or similar language)
• You are a proficient written communicator, with the ability to clearly articulate thoughts across a team
• You are passionate about developer experience and reducing friction for maintainers and contributors
• You have experience with GitHub Actions and/or release management for complex software projects
• You’ve worked on extract-transform-load tools or stream processing systems

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits and Growth:

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Competitive global benefits
• Giving programs

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

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Datadog is committed to open source. It starts with our Agent, tracers, libraries, and SDKs all being open source. But it goes so much further. From open standards to open collaboration, it’s a core part of who we are and what we do. As part of the Open Source Program Office (OSPO), you will be focusing on building tools, documentation, policies, etc. that improve how our engineers interact with Open Source projects (our own and third-party projects), as well as representing Datadog in Open Source communities. 

What You’ll Do: 

• Build and maintain tools that ease building and releasing Open Source software at Datadog
• Build and maintain tools that ease ingesting Open Source software at Datadog
• Create developer facing documentation and training materials around contributing to open source and maintaining open source projects
• Interface with open source communities to understand problems and trends in the market
• Create tools to automatically analyze and report on Open Source repositories trends and statistics
• Interface with Datadog Open Source Partners candidates and recipients to select new projects for the program and ensure that the program stays useful
• Research and write content for the Datadog Open Source Hub
• Contribute to the product through feedback (bugs or product enhancements suggestions), documentation, or code

Who You Are: 

• Approximately 3+ years of experience as a software developer, SRE, or other practitioner.
• You are fluent in reading and writing one or more languages, e.g. Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, C#, Rust, and so on.
• You love building tools that make other engineers more productive.
• You have empathy, collaboration, and communication skills to cultivate strong relationships across various teams in the organization.
• Bonus: You are (or have been) an active member of an open source community.
• Bonus: You are familiar with different Open Source licenses and Contributor License Agreements 

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.  

Benefits and Growth: 

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive global benefits

 Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

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Datadog is committed to open source. It starts with our Agent, tracers, libraries, and SDKs all being open source. But it goes so much further. From open standards to open collaboration, it’s a core part of who we are and what we do. As part of the Open Source Program Office (OSPO), you will be focusing on building tools, documentation, policies, etc. that improve how our engineers interact with Open Source projects (our own and third-party projects), as well as representing Datadog in Open Source communities. 

What You’ll Do: 

• Build and maintain tools that ease building and releasing Open Source software at Datadog
• Build and maintain tools that ease ingesting Open Source software at Datadog
• Create developer facing documentation and training materials around contributing to open source and maintaining open source projects
• Interface with open source communities to understand problems and trends in the market
• Create tools to automatically analyze and report on Open Source repositories trends and statistics
• Interface with [Datadog Open Source Partners] (Datadog for Open Source Projects | Datadog ) candidates and recipients to select new projects for the program and ensure that the program stays useful
• Research and write content for the [Datadog Open Source Hub] (Open Source Hub )
• Contribute to the product through feedback (bugs or product enhancements suggestions), documentation, or code

Who You Are: 

• Approximately 3+ years of experience as a software developer, SRE, or other practitioner.
• You are fluent in reading and writing one or more languages, e.g. Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, C#, Rust, and so on.
• You love building tools that make other engineers more productive.
• You have empathy, collaboration, and communication skills to cultivate strong relationships across various teams in the organization.
• Bonus: You are (or have been) an active member of an open source community.
• Bonus: You are familiar with different Open Source licenses and Contributor License Agreements 

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.  

Benefits and Growth: 

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive global benefits

 Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

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Our Senior Developer Advocates are technical leaders and mentors that anchor our team. They own projects from beginning to end, facilitating collaboration and enabling Datadog's community to solve real-world problems. With a focus on Data Observability, this role will enable our community of engineers around Datadog to be part of a movement of building better software. This is a unique opportunity to use both your engineering expertise and advocacy skills to shape the ever-evolving technological landscape.

What You’ll Do:

• Act as a subject matter expert for data observability on behalf of the Datadog advocacy and engineering teams
• Create content in one or more mediums to build Datadog's reputation as a leader in data engineering and observability e.g. building demos, public speaking, blogging, documentation, webinars, open source, research reports and more
• Partner with and coach internal product and customer engineering teams on effective public communication and presentations for the work they do
• Contribute to the product through feedback (bugs or product enhancements suggestions)
• Identify and pursue opportunities for events, programs, and other community-focused work that establishes trust with practitioners

Who You Are: 

You are a trusted technical expert who enjoys helping data practitioners understand, operate, and improve complex data systems in production. You bring deep, hands-on experience in one or more areas of modern data engineering, and you use that experience to provide clear context to both the community and internal teams.

You are not expected to be an expert in every area below. Instead, you bring depth in some and working familiarity across many, and you are comfortable connecting them into a coherent operational story.

• Data engineering & processing systems: You have built, operated, or supported production data pipelines using distributed processing systems such as Apache Spark or Databricks, and understand common failure modes, performance tradeoffs, and operational challenges in batch and hybrid pipelines.
• Data platforms & analytics systems: You have hands-on experience with analytics platforms such as Snowflake and BigQuery, including schema design, data modeling, SQL-based analysis, and reasoning about performance, cost, and access patterns in real-world environments.
• Streaming & event-driven data: You understand how data flows through streaming systems such as Kafka or similar platforms, including producer and consumer behavior, lag, delivery semantics, and how streaming issues propagate into downstream datasets and analytics.
• Data quality, lineage, and metadata concepts: You are familiar with how data teams reason about data quality, upstream and downstream impact, and change management, and have experience working with data lineage, metadata, or transformation tooling (for example dbt, OpenLineage, or related ecosystems), or have operated in environments where these concepts are core to reliability.
• Programming & querying: You are comfortable working in at least one programming language commonly used in data systems (for example Python, Scala, Java, or Go), along with strong SQL skills, and you can move fluidly between code, queries, and notebooks when exploring or demonstrating data systems.

You also have:

• 10+ years of experience as a software developer, data engineer, SRE, or other practitioner building and maintaining production systems
• 3+ years of experience in advocacy, developer relations, or equivalent experience reaching technical audiences through written content, conference talks, workshops, webinars, videos, or open-source contributions
• Publicly available writing samples, demos, repositories, or recordings of technical presentations
• Familiarity with modern cloud infrastructure and container-based systems
• A strong interest in self-directed learning and exploring new technologies, tools, and problem spaces

Bonus points:

• Experience supporting data pipelines for ML or AI systems
• Meaningful contributions to open source or shared technical tooling
  
  

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply. 

Benefits and Growth: 

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive global benefits

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

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